Question

find the base and the altitude.
8. Find the area of a right triangle having base = 24 cm and hypotenuse = 25 cm.
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Answer 1

Area of rightangled triangle = 1/2 * base *height

height is not given

as it is a rightangled triangle pythagoras's therom can be used

25, 24 and 7 is a pythagorean triplet

therefore height =7cm

area =1/2* 24*7

= 84cm^2